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1984, the cosby show comes on. bill cosby is not new to tv, he's had other tv shows, but the cosby show is very different. it stands apart from everything he has done. they talked about parenting. previous to that on television, the kids were cool and the parents were idiots and then cosby says the parents are in charge, and that was something new. >> instead of acting disappointed, because i'm not like you, maybe you can just accept who i am and love me anyway because i'm your son. >> that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard in my life. >> you know, it helps the casting of anything helps a lo...

Important show as you're going into they area of television being more introspective and emotional. and some people weren't buying it. but for other people when they were talking about having kids and going back to work and some of the issues that hadn't been important to people. lot, it was >> i was so looking forward -- i was so looking forward to doing this. to be a grown-up for just an hour. >> in the beginning, there was talk of this being the yuppie show. and you mentioned it tonight. you said if there were a category for the most annoying show, this might win as well. >> what some peopl...

Than the slut i'm looking at now. >> he was such a delicious villain, everyone was enamored by this character. at this point so many people were watching television you could do something so unexpected that it would become news overnight. >> the national obsession in 1980 over who shot j.r., it's hard to imagine how obsessed we all were with that question, but we were. >> who shot j.r. is about as ideal a cliff hanger as you could possibly get. >> who shot j.r., we may never get the answer to that question. the people that produced that program are going to keep us in suspense as long as they ...

>> rivera suffered a broken nose but he said the show will be broadcast later this month in its entirety. >> well, that's not something, you know, i would have done. but there was a lot of hypocrisy. one of the major magazines put the picture of geraldo getting hit with chair on the cover, isn't this awful, but they couldn't wait to use it to sell their own magazine. >> over the years, broadcasting has deteriorated and in this era of deregulation, it's deteriorating further. >> give people light and they will find their own way. relax, america will survive the talk shows. >> wow, did that just...

Class black family. and this wasn't all in the family. they weren't tackling, you know, deep issues, but that was okay. the mere fact that they existed was a deep issue. >> the decade was waiting for something real. in other words, unless it's real, it doesn't seem like it moves anybody. if someone's feeling something, you get to the heart, you get to the mind and if you can hit the hearts and minds, you got yourself a hit. >> how was school? >> school, dear, i brought home two children that may or may not be ours. >> cosby show brought this tremendous audience to nbc. and that was a bridge to...